Hospital-Acquired Candidemia: The Attributable Mortality and Excess Length of Stay

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 148, Issue 12, 1988, Pages 2642-2645

  Wey, Sergio B ^a   Mori, Motomi ^a   Pfaller, Michael A ^a   Woolson, Robert F ^a   Wenzel, Richard P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANDIDEMIA; FATALITY; FUNGUS; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CANDIDIASIS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; IOWA; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGE;

EID: 0024239135     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.1988.00380120094019     Document Type: Article

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